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A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.

A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.

A little spade. [Obs.]

n oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel. "With spade and pickax armed." Milton.

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

As much as a spade will hold or lift.

One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

Bearing flowers on a spadix; of the nature of a spadix.

Spadiceous.

The ace of spades in omber and quadrille.

A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

Same as Spade, 2.

A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.

A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.

A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. Wilhelm.

A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.